Sounds like Wednesday is the day to watch. NK warned foreign diplomats that their safety couldn't be guaranteed, starting April 10. Not sure what the significance of that date is, if any, but it seems odd they would throw a random day in the middle of a random week out there.

The nukes scare me. If they nuke South Korea, we're almost bound by policy to retaliate in kind. Once the "Imperialist Americans" unleash a nuke, God only knows what response there will be from militant factions around the world.

I don't believe NK ratchets up the rhetoric like they have if Obama wasn't president. My guess is that this is posturing by KJU to appear strong on the homefront. He wouldn't be posturing quite so hard if we had a president he believed would lob some STFU missles his way.

There are different ways to define "damage to foreign policy". It's no fun being called a bully, but it sure is nice when the 98 pound weaklings know their role.

I can't help but think of Jimmy Carter. I was pretty young and only paid halfass attention to world news but I recall thinking that other nations viewed us a weak. I'm sure that was mostly based on Iran but that's what I remember from my early teenage years.

It's just a shame there were no huge oil reserves in North Korea. Maybe that way, a rogue nation with a nuclear arms program testing intercontinental missiles with the express intent of reaching the continental United States might have qualified as a target in a "War on Terror".